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Shinya Oohira

Name in Native Language: "大平晋也" (Japanese/JA)
Animator / Film Director | * 12/12/1966 (57) | Aichi (Japan)
Shinya Ohira (Japanese: 大平晋也, Hepburn: Ōhira Shin'ya, born December 12, 1966) is a Japanese animator, director and character designer. He is known for his animation style with constantly shifting linework, described as being both realistic and surreal. He is part of the animator circle Studio Break, along with animators like Atsushi Yano and Shinji Hashimoto. He has worked on several Studio Ghibli films, with Hayao Miyazaki even storyboarding certain scenes with Ohira in mind for the animation. ()

Shinya Oohira is one of the most talented and recognized animators in the world of anime. His animation style includes using exaggerating motion, manipulating gravity and balance with the use of different perspective shots, lots of rapid camera movement, and unconventional angles. With his boldly distorted and vigorous drawing style, his cuts are unique and instantly recognizable.He has worked as an animator for over thirty years. His early work in the 1980s mainly consisted of action and effects cuts. He bounced around several studios (including Sunrise, Madhouse, and Pierrot).

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Most frequent genres for this person: Animation | Action | Science Fiction

Known for these Movies & Shows

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop. ...

Akira

FSK: 16+ years

1988 | 4.0/5 | 2h 4min
Animation, Science Fiction, Action
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An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance. ...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

FSK: 18+ years

2003 | 4.0/5 | 1h 51min
Action, Crime
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It's 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyri ...

Only Yesterday

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1991 | 3.7/5 | 1h 58min
Animation, Drama, Romance / Love
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Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gyno ...

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

FSK: 16+ years

2004 | 3.7/5 | 1h 40min
Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
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Movies with Shinya Oohira as Crew(44)

Visual Effects/Key Animation2023 The Boy and the Heron
Visual Effects/Key Animation2021 The House of the Lost on the Cape
Visual Effects/Animation2019 One Arm
Visual Effects/Animation2018 Batman Ninja
Visual Effects/Key Animation2017 Lu Over the Wall
Art/Storyboard Artist2017 Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Visual Effects/Key Animation2017 Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Visual Effects/Key Animation2017 Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
Visual Effects/Key Animation2017 Mary and The Witch's Flower
Visual Effects/Key Animation2016 Garo: Divine Flame
Visual Effects/Key Animation2014 The Last: Naruto the Movie
Visual Effects/Key Animation2014 Giovanni's Island
Visual Effects/Key Animation2013 The Wind Rises
Visual Effects/Key Animation2012 A Letter to Momo
Visual Effects/Key Animation2012 Rainbow Fireflies
Visual Effects/Key Animation2010 Redline
Art/Background Designer2008 Genius Party Beyond
Directing/Director2008 Genius Party Beyond
Visual Effects/Character Designer2008 Genius Party Beyond
Visual Effects/Animation Director2008 Genius Party Beyond
Visual Effects/Key Animation2006 Tekkonkinkreet
Visual Effects/Key Animation2005 The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game
Visual Effects/Key Animation2005 Tsubasa Chronicle The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom
Visual Effects/Key Animation2005 xxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Visual Effects/Key Animation2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Visual Effects/Key Animation2004 Howl's Moving Castle
Visual Effects/Animation2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Visual Effects/Animation2002 Ghiblies: Episode 2
Visual Effects/Key Animation2001 Spirited Away
Visual Effects/Key Animation1999 My Neighbors the Yamadas
Visual Effects/Key Animation1994 Junkers Come Here
Visual Effects/Key Animation1992 Porco Rosso
Visual Effects/Key Animation1991 Only Yesterday
Visual Effects/Key Animation1990 MAROKO
Visual Effects/Key Animation1989 All That Gundam
Visual Effects/Animation1989 Angel Cop
Visual Effects/Animation1989 Riding Bean
Visual Effects/Key Animation1988 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Visual Effects/Key Animation1988 Akira
Visual Effects/Animation1987 Black Magic M-66
Visual Effects/Animation1987 Gall Force 2: Destruction
Visual Effects/Key Animation1986 Love City
Visual Effects/Animation1986 Megazone 23 II
Visual Effects/Animation1986 Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber

TV Shows/Series with Shinya Oohira as Crew(8)

Visual Effects/Opening/Ending Animation2014 Ping Pong the Animation
Visual Effects/Key Animation2014 Space Dandy
Visual Effects/Key Animation2014 Japan Animator Expo
Visual Effects/Key Animation2000 FLCL
Visual Effects/Key Animation1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Visual Effects/Key Animation1989 Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!
Visual Effects/Animation1987 Bubblegum Crisis
Visual Effects/Animation1985 Ninja Robots

Citizenship: Japan
Born: Monday, 12/12 1966 (December) in Aichi (Japan) (current age: 57 years + 126 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Other names for Shinya Oohira (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Shinnosuke Harada"
"Shin'ya Ôhira"
"Shinya Ohara"
"大平晋也"
"Shinya Ohira"
"おおひら しんや" (Kana/Japanese)
Shinya Oohira frequently works together with these people:
Hayao Miyazaki (19x, Crew)
Shinji Hashimoto (14x, Crew)
Masaaki Endou (12x, Crew)
Kazuya Tsurumaki (11x, Crew)
Masashi Ando (11x, Crew)
Masaaki Yuasa (11x, Crew)
Hiroshi Shimizu (10x, Crew)
Takeshi Seyama (10x, Crew)
Hiroyuki Okiura (10x, Crew)
Tetsuya Nishio (9x, Crew)
Kouichi Arai (9x, Crew)
Hirofumi Masuda (9x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:333748, Added: 08/14/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024